A new report from CA Technologies says that there is a significant impact digital transformation is having on enterprises worldwide. The survey – "Keeping Score: Why Digital Transformation Matters", demonstrates the strong connection between business performance and the technologies and practices that underpin digital transformation, yet reveals a significant opportunity for growth. The study further revealed that deepening adoption of practices such as agile, DevOps, API management and identity-centric security boosts business impact by up to 52 percent.

The research also introduces the Digital Transformation Business Impact Scorecard (BIS), a global ranking of countries and industries across 14 key performance indicators (KPIs) critical for digital transformation success.

The scorecard results clearly indicate that digital transformation is paying off with tangible benefits as respondents reported:

Against a global average BIS score of 53, many developing countries top the list – India (79), Thailand (71), Brazil (69), Indonesia (66) and Malaysia (64). The U.S. scored 57 and all of the European countries scored lower.

Emerging and developing economies have more ability than mature countries to start their digital transformation efforts with a “clean slate” approach that has less legacy environments to deal with. Therefore, the payoffs can be faster and more significant.

From a vertical sector perspective, the top 5 industries were telecoms (59), banking & financial services (57), public sector (56), retail (54) and healthcare (53). The surprise performance of the public sector reconfirms the strong emphasis governments have been placing on leveraging the app economy and digital transformation to provide more jobs, increase tax revenue and provide better services to their citizens.

The research also explored the key technology choices and best practices businesses are deploying in their digital transformation efforts and what effect they have on business performance.

To measure the impact, the research mapped the level of maturity of adoption of these practices against their Business Impact Scorecard results and found: